Improvement in wagon-seat fastenings



J. G. RANKIN. ,WAGON SEAT FASTENING.

Patented Dec, 6, 1870.

JOHN CALVIN-RANKIN, 0F MQUNT-VERNON. NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 109,943, dated December 6, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-SEAT FASTENINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making partvof the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN OAnvrn RANKIN, of Mount Vernon, in the county of Westchester, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Fastening for Securing Seats in \Vagons and Carri ages; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the -letters'of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification. I

This invent-iourelates to anew and improved fastening for securing seats in wagons and carriages.

' The object ofythe invention is to obtain a secure fastening, which will admit of the seat being readily detached, when necessary, for the purpdse of shifting it further forward or backward to-equa-lly distribute the weight of the load'on the springs, as is required in two-seated wagons, when one seat is removed and the other only used to accommodate two persons.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure l is an inner side view ofmy invention;

Figures 2 and 3, detached views of parts pertaining to the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A, in fig. 1, represents a portion of one sideof a wagon-body, and

B, the seat of the same.

These parts'may be of usual construction, and there- .fore' do not require a special description. v

To the inner surface of each side 0 of the seat there is secured,-by screws or otherwise,- a metal bar, a, the lower end of which extends some distance below the sides 0- and terminate'in curved ,or hook-shaped ends, D, as shown clearly in fig. 1', the inner portion of said ends, at their outer edges, forming a quadrant or quarter circle, as shown, included between b and c, the reremaining portion, from c to d,'be in g a portion of a smaller circle The upper edges of theends D is a semicircle of a smaller circle than the curve of the outer edge and is eccentric with it This will be fully understood by referring to fig. 1, By referring to this figure it will be seen that the whole of the hooked end extends below the lower edge of the side 0 of the seat.

'E'is a socket, which is fitted in the top rails F'of the sides of the body A of the wagon.

This socket is of v metal and is formed with a lip or flange, d, on its upper edge to fit over the top of the rail. I

\Vithin the socket, at its inner side, there are two projections, e c,which are parts of circles corresponding with those of the outer andinner edges of the end 1), so that the latter will fit within the former and constitutea lock or fastening for the seat when said seat is adjusted in its place.

In orderto remove the seat it requires to be raised. to an ahgle of about forty-five degrees; hence it cannot be casually detached from the body.

I would remark that in'lieu of the bar a, for securing the hook .to the side of the seat the hook may. be cast orformedwith metal plates and the latter screwed to the under edges of the side 0. I prefer, however,

the bar a, as the side is strengthened thereby, owing to its transverse position with the grainof the wood.

I would further remark that a plurality of sockets, E, two at each side, areapplied to therails F to admit of the-forward and backward adjustment of the seat, and that steady or dowel-pins are applied to the edge ofthe seat opposite to that where the hooks D are attached in order to steady the seat in position.

I do not claim broadly a hook-fastening for movable carriage seats, as such have been used heretofore; but i Having'thns described my invention,

-What I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described wagon-seat fastening, composed of thebar a, provided with the curve I) c (l, and attached to the seat, as'shown, to strengthen the same, and the socket 1*] cl made with curved projections,-e s, between which the end of the bar a passes and is held, all the parts being constructed and arranged as herein set forth and shown.

JNO. O. RANKIN.

Witnesses Bonn Davis,

Gno. E. ARCHER. 

